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...capricious Hungarian émigré aristocrat. A mediocre student who still refers painfully to the "humiliations" of his childhood, he embraced Gaullist conservatism as a young man when most of his contemporaries were reveling in the make-love-not-war spirit of the late '60s. He triumphed in the French vote by painting himself as the candidate of change. "Together we will write a new page in our history," he promised in his victory speech...
Although she was in her 60s when she first hit the Broadway stage, Anne Pitoniak came out swinging. Her excruciating performance as the out- of-touch mother of a suicidal young woman in Marsha Norman's 1983 'night Mother won her critical raves, a Tony nomination and roles as strong-willed women in film, TV and such Broadway shows as William Inge's Picnic and David Hare's Amy's View...
...Adams ’69, the somewhat reluctant winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music, returns to Harvard this weekend to receive the 2007 Harvard Arts Medal, he’ll find a campus fundamentally different from the one he attended during the late ’60s. “I think back on the anxiety and fear because of the war and the immense exhilaration of counter-culture and the explosion of popular music,” says Adams. “I could turn on the radio at any time and listen to great AM music...
...listening to the lyrics. Just as furiously sarcastic as the earlier tracks, these middle songs are all the more powerful for their understated arrangements. “Fluorescent” opens with a call-and-response between two guitars, reminiscent of wide-eyed ’60s pop, but the Arctic Monkeys are anything but innocent. Their three-minute tirade against a trashy girl who hides her flaws behind a façade of respectability is brilliantly hateful, with a smooth melody and tight lyrics (“You used to get it in your fishnets / Now you only...
...CLASSIC VILLAINS HAVE BEEN shortchanged," says Peter Dinklage, who's Simon Barsinister, the orotund baddie in this summer's update of the '60s cartoon series Under-dog. "They've been cheated out of something by the hero. They'll do anything to get it because they've been overlooked in the past...